Sony’s ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ is the other big holiday winner heading into New Year’s weekend.
Disney and Lucasfilm’s The Last Jedi is crossing the $1 billion mark at the global box office as Hollywood bids adieu to 2017.
Overall, it’s looking like a strong New Year’s weekend in terms of moviegoing. That’s good news for the film business, which is hoping to close a year-over-year gap as much as possible. If early estimates are correct, revenue in North America will clock in at $11.12 billion, down 2.5 percent from last year’s record $11.4 billion but on par with 2015. It’s only the third time that domestic revenue has crossed $11 billion.
The Last Jedi has stayed atop the box-office chart throughout the year-end holidays, grossing another $19.1 million from 4,232 theaters on Friday for a domestic total of $483.8 million and global total hovering around $974 million.
The tentpole is poised to gross $72 million for the four-day holiday weekend in North America, pushing its domestic cume to roughly $537 million through Monday, more than 25 percent behind the $742 million earned by Star Wars: The Force Awakens two years ago over the holidays. At the the same time, The Last Jedi is already passing the entire lifetime gross of standalone film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($1.06 billion).
Sony’s holiday hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle wasn’t far behind The Last Jedi on Friday, grossing $17.8 million on Friday from 3,765 locations for a projected four-day gross of $66 million-plus.
The reboot should finish the weekend with a domestic tally of $187 million or more, and roughly $350 million globally.Universal’s Pitch Perfect 3 continues to hold at No. 3. The threequel, fueled by younger females, earned $6.7 million from 3,468 locations on Friday for an estimated $23.5…
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